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Banana bread with walnuts - perfect breakfast and dessert recipe!
This is simply the best recipe I've found so far for the most moist, perfectly sweetened, and easy banana bread. I added walnuts to this recipe, but they are totally optional, even though I love my banana bread with walnuts. This recipe is so easy, you don't even need a mixer - just mix everything with a big wooden spoon!
I've been eating this walnut banana bread for both breakfast and dessert for the past week and just love it!
Try this delicious banana bread with walnuts and you'll love it as much as I do!
Banana Bread with Walnuts
Ingredients
- 3 bananas , ripe, smashed
- ⅓ cup butter melted
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup walnuts chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- In a large bowl, mix butter into the mashed bananas, using wooden spoon. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour last, mix just enough to blend the ingredients; do not over0mix, the lumps will work themselves out.
- Add chopped walnuts to the batter and mix them in to distribute evenly through the batter.
- Butter a 4×8 inch loaf pan. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper, butter the parchment paper too. Pour the batter in the pan. Bake for 1 hour. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.
- Note: lining the bottom of the pan with parchment paper ensures that the bottom of the bread will not get stuck.
Notes
Nutrition
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Absolutely THE best recipe - easy, tasty, moist. Thank you!
Heidi, I am so happy to hear that! Thank you for your comment! 🙂
I'm a first time ;Baker: , have done this recipe four times and turned out wonderful,
Jeff, I am so happy to hear you enjoyed this recipe! 🙂 Thank you so much for your comment!
I'm a first time baker and have done this recipe four times and turns out wonderful.
Very happy to hear that!
The only recipe i use!!!! 🙂 amazing.
Danielle, I am so pleased to hear that! Thank you for the comment! 🙂
Delicious!
Donna, I am glad you liked the recipe! Thank you so much for your comment!
I didn’t have baking soda so I used 3x baking powder. Was delicious!!! Love the recipe
Rosie, I am so glad you liked this recipe! 🙂 Thank you for stopping by and sharing this comment!
This recipe is so easy and tastes so good. I love it. Cooking it and trying some brown sugar on top. Do you think you could replace the sugar with brown sugar in the mix?
Hi Leanne, I am glad you enjoyed this recipe! Yes, you can replace the sugar with brown sugar.
I am making this right NOW!! It has my house smelling so good!!
Enjoy! Hope you liked the bread! 🙂
I've made this several times and it always gets top marks from my taste testers!
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This has to be the BEST banana bread EVER!!! I did add the walnuts...yummy!!! This is the third time I have made this!
Gail, I am so glad you liked this recipe! Thank you so much for such a positive comment! 🙂
Very poor banana cake. Moisture balance is quite a ways off.
idk man, always comes out nice and moist for me 🙂
Cathy, glad to hear this recipe worked for you!
I forgot to rate this 5-Stars.
Thanks! 🙂
The first time I made this I added the sour cream. It diluted the taste and added to the cooking time which caused the sides and bottom to overcook a bit. The second time I followed the recipe exactly and it was perfect. Tasted great, cooked evenly, and was perfectly moist, even days later. This is now my go-to Banana-walnut bread recipe.
Thank you, John, for such a positive comment! :). Glad to hear you enjoyed the recipe!
This recipe is amazing. I added 1/2 cup of greek yogurt because I read in the comments that someone put 1/2 cup of sour cream. I also cooked a little more than one hour, maybe an hour and 13 minutes? Highly recommend (esp with the walnuts).
So glad you liked this recipe! Great idea to add Greek yogurt!
So good! I also added the sour cream and used 1/3 cup of chocolate chips instead of walnuts. I’m not a huge fan of nuts in anything. I baked for about 50 min and my oven gets HOT! I would do 45 min and do the toothpick test. Toddler approved too!